The British Colonies that became our six States were not uniting into one country out of fear or after a war, but for the common good. A vote was taken and a substantial majority of the delegates at the 1891 constitutional convention in Sydney accepted the name ‘Commonwealth of Australia’. It is said that Henry Parkes, affectionately known as the father of federation, suggested the term ‘Commonwealth’ when the drafting process of the Constitution was beginning. Our Constitution was written over a period of about a decade before we federated in 1901. You might have also heard the federal Government being called the ‘Commonwealth Government’. But if you flip open a copy of our Constitution you’ll notice that our official country name is the ‘Commonwealth of Australia’. Although, with our penchant for shortening words, these days you often hear us being called ‘Straya’. Most of us would think that our country is called ‘Australia’.
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